Tom Rini <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 04:51:42PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote: > >> Some license scanners are particularly dumb and when combined with >> automatic license scanning for FLOSS accreditation on forges cause >> problems on renewal. As GPL 2.0 applies to the core code link the main >> licence text to COPYING to keep everything happy. >> >> This caused issues for the QEMU project recently as we mirror (two!) >> copies of u-boot in our project. >> >> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <[email protected]> > > Since Daniel Berrangé posted a similar patch 3 days ago, I assume the > gitlab license renewal is coming up quickly.
We fixed it by temporally moving the repo to another project (although it seems that is not a true mirror as mirroing needs the full paid GitLab). However it broke a bunch of down-streams tracking earlier branches. > > In principal, I'm fine with this and will apply a patch shortly. > > In practice, we've always had to get a human involved at Gitlab to get > our license renewed as we're clearly within the required terms, it's > just that we've also got some further reading people should do. The GitLab process is a click though automated one now. However I did check GitLab identifies the right license with the patch: https://gitlab.com/stsquad/u-boot/ -- Alex Bennée Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
